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by detourdog 832 days ago
I’m working on it. Many projects but documenting this collection is bubbling up to the top.
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Here is a Nixdorf 820 with the ROD memory

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0Y59UlCqNHCjx

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/...

This computer earned listing for this innovation.

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/...

Which puts into context.

I also included the story of it's previous life.

My thinking is we are focused on making circuits too small. We need big circuits that make big but simple decisions. I was collecting pre-microprocessor computing artifacts for a while. I now need to get sit down and figure out what I have.

In the meantime I use them as reference idea to feed my development of a 100 year computer.

So interesting, thanks for sharing